256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The result of extensive archival recovery work, Ellen Brinks's study fills a significant gap in our understanding of women's literary history of the South Asian subcontinent under colonialism and of Indian women's contributions and responses to developing cultural and political nationalism. As Brinks shows, the invisibility of Anglophone Indian women writers cannot be explained simply as a matter... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Translating Hindustan: Toru Dutt’s Poems and Letters; Chapter 2 Gendered Spaces and Conjugal Reform in Krupabai Satthianadhan’s Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life; Chapter 3 Feminizing Famine, Imperial Critique: Pandita Ramabai’s Famine Essays; Chapter 4 The Imperial Family Begins in the Nursery: Cornelia Sorabji’s ‘Baby-fication’ of Empire; Chapter 5 The Voice of India: Sarojini Naidu’s Nationalist Poetics; epilo Epilogue;
Biography
Ellen Brinks is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.
’This book goes beyond describing the writers as just converted Hindu women ... a detailed, more diverse account into the lives of Indian women reformers but also highlight[s] the complexities they (must have) negotiated across time, space, culture and religious barriers.’ FWSA blog
